Re: Screen Saver Tab Missing

I scanned the PC with a number of AV, spyware, malware, etc. scanners and could find nothing.

It may be that the user did a scan and removed it. I got the PC about three weeks after the problem started.

rb

Elmo wrote:
rb wrote:
I have spent parts of the last three days trying to fix a friends WINXP
PC - the Display Properties, Screen Saver, tab was missing.

After doing many Internet searches, and doing everything those searches
suggested, I still could not turn on the Screen Saver tab.

As a last resort I compared that PC against another WINXP PC where the
Screen Saver Tab displayed properly.

I found that by adding the following Registry entries:


REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{ADB9F5A4-E73E-49b8-99B6-2FA317EF9DBC}]

@="Windows ScreenSaver Properties"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{ADB9F5A4-E73E-49b8-99B6-2FA317EF9DBC}\DefaultIcon]

@=hex(2):25,53,79,73,74,65,6d,52,6f,6f,74,25,5c,73,79,73,74,65,6d,33,32,5c,74,\

68,65,6d,65,75,69,2e,64,6c,6c,2c,37,00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{ADB9F5A4-E73E-49b8-99B6-2FA317EF9DBC}\InProcServer32]

@=hex(2):25,53,79,73,74,65,6d,52,6f,6f,74,25,5c,73,79,73,74,65,6d,33,32,5c,74,\

68,65,6d,65,75,69,2e,64,6c,6c,00
"ThreadingModel"="Apartment"


the Display Properties, Screen Saver, tab appeared and worked as expected.

I hope that this helps someone with a similar problem.

Did you get rid of the malware that disabled the screen saver?

.

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